Born in Seattle, Washington, Frances Elena Farmer is a rebel from a young age, winning $100 in 1931 from The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for a high school essay called God Dies.

Permanent Midnight is a 1998 independent drama film directed by David Veloz and starring Ben Stiller.

The different parts of Pulitzer Prize winner C. K. Williams' life told through his poems.

Lenny Brown (James Woods) is a real-estate hustler looking to strike it rich. He is married to Linda, (Sean Young) a paralegal and amateur dancer.

The film opens immediately after the shooting at The Factory in 1968, followed by Valerie Solanas being shown in custody for shooting Andy Warhol.

Gia Carangi is a Philadelphia native who moves to New York City to become a fashion model, and immediately catches the attention of powerful agent Wilhelmina Cooper.

The film is a lightly fictionalised account of Basquiat's life.

Jack Kerouac, coming off the recent success of On the Road, is unable to cope with a suddenly demanding public and his rise in popularity, and begins battling with advanced alcoholism as a result.

Piñero is a 2001 American biopic about the troubled life of Nuyorican poet and playwright Miguel Piñero, starring Benjamin Bratt as the title character.

The Last of Robin Hood is a 2013 American independent biographical drama film about actor Errol Flynn directed and written by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland.

Joan Crawford is a driven actress and compulsively clean housekeeper who tries controlling the lives of those around her as tightly as she controls herself.

Jan Paul Beahm (Shane West) grows up in Los Angeles through a troubled childhood; he does not know his biological father, his mother is an alcoholic, and his older brother dies from a heroin overdose.

On the edges of Las Vegas, 17-year-old Andrew's life is spiraling out of control.

The film is about Italian fashion designer and company founder Gianni Versace, whose career is outstanding.

The film is framed by Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) being interviewed in a hospital several years after her time as an Andy Warhol superstar.

The Anna Nicole Smith Story (working title: Anna Nicole: The Movie) is a 2009 biographical film depicting the life of Anna Nicole Smith, released on DVD on September 22, 2009.

Telling the story of one of America’s most famous literary couples, the movie begins in 1936 when the pair meet for the first time in a chance encounter in a Key West bar in Florida.

Steal This Movie! is a 2000 American biographical film directed by Robert Greenwald and written by Bruce Graham, based on two books: To America with Love: Letters From the Underground by Anita and Abbie Hoffman and Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel by Marty Jezer.

Lymon was 13 years old when the teenage group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers erupted from radios and jukeboxes with their 1956 hit "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" and appeared in the movie Rock, Rock, Rock (1956).

Whitney is a 2015 American biographical film directed by Angela Bassett based on American recording artist Whitney Houston and her turbulent marriage to R&B artist Bobby Brown that premiered on Lifetime in North America on January 17, 2015.